2009-2010 University of Alabama Application Thread

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20PAIGE10 said:
haha I agree, but i believe attendence is manditory. I am not sure what the penalty is for not attending though. When I went for my interview, one of the current students was saying how he hated that class was manditory bc of his learning style. Sitting in class did nothing for him. It just wasted his study time. He tried studying during class, but that wasn't very productive. so... I guess for some it would be bad, but I still think that no matter what, you should have to/want to go to class 😀
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if it's bad for some then why should everybody have to go to class? i think everybody has their own learning styles and should be allowed to choose. if i were running the show, i'd say that if a students grades drop below a certain level then they should be required to go. before the attendance policy, many of the people who matched in the most competitive programs were those who never went to class. just my opinion, but that's how i learn best so i would rather not have the policy.

on another note, i'm on 3rd tier so i can't expect to get in. therefore, i have to take the MCAT again. i did pretty well on it the first time but it's from 2007 so it won't count for next year. i haven't had chem, organic, or physics in over 4 years now. anybody have any suggestions on what book or prep course is a good 3-4 week refresher for those of us who once knew all that stuff pretty well, but no longer remember it? thank you.
 
DOCnAbox said:
This is not a ridiculous question. You are required to go to 80% of classes. You start losing pts after you have missed 20% of classes and the overall attendance is 5% of your grade. Sometimes it is good and even necessary to skip a class in order to do some hard core studying. You can always get the scripts (notes) for the classes you missed.
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DOCnAbox,

Is this the policy for this year's M1 class? I know UAB has been changing attendance policies a lot with the new curriculum... my sister's currently an M4 and was the last class of the normal curriculum, and it was the opposite extreme (by the end of year 2, their classes would have 10-15 people in them out of a 170 person class). I know they've taken steps to increase class attendance, but I really wish it wasn't mandatory -- if we could study better on our own, why not? The point is that we learn the material, not how we learn it!

I know they're changing it again for our year, but I'm not sure how it's going to change. Hopefully geared towards less required attendance!

-sol
 
Come on guys.. I need more of you to get in off the waitlist. It is not moving fast enough for me.

Thanks in advance**
 
auburnO5 said:
Come on guys.. I need more of you to get in off the waitlist. It is not moving fast enough for me.

Thanks in advance**
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I'm still on the top 1/3 and still haven't heard anything. I guess I'm not as high on the list as some others were on here. Anyone else on here still on the top tier and not in yet?

(yes this is my first post. I've been a long time lurker but never posted 🙂 )
 
sanityonleave said:
DOCnAbox,

Is this the policy for this year's M1 class? I know UAB has been changing attendance policies a lot with the new curriculum... my sister's currently an M4 and was the last class of the normal curriculum, and it was the opposite extreme (by the end of year 2, their classes would have 10-15 people in them out of a 170 person class). I know they've taken steps to increase class attendance, but I really wish it wasn't mandatory -- if we could study better on our own, why not? The point is that we learn the material, not how we learn it!

I know they're changing it again for our year, but I'm not sure how it's going to change. Hopefully geared towards less required attendance!

-sol
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This is indeed the policy for the M1 class as of this year. The reason it is mandatory is prob the same reason any class would be (baring notes are available). Teachers don't want to teach a class that has 10 people filling a room with 200 seats. It looks bad and it prob hurts their pompous feelings. I know if I got my butt outta bed to teach something I would be pissed if 10% of the class actually showed up.
 
w0nder said:
I'm still on the top 1/3 and still haven't heard anything. I guess I'm not as high on the list as some others were on here. Anyone else on here still on the top tier and not in yet?

(yes this is my first post. I've been a long time lurker but never posted 🙂 )
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I am a recent lurker, who is on the middle third. Maybe if in addition to keeping up with who gets in off the waiting list we can get people who are still waiting on the upper 1/3 to let us know. That might give us a rough idea of how far down the list UAB currently is.
 
w0nder said:
I'm still on the top 1/3 and still haven't heard anything. I guess I'm not as high on the list as some others were on here. Anyone else on here still on the top tier and not in yet?

(yes this is my first post. I've been a long time lurker but never posted 🙂 )
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obrienwspt said:
I am a recent lurker, who is on the middle third. Maybe if in addition to keeping up with who gets in off the waiting list we can get people who are still waiting on the upper 1/3 to let us know. That might give us a rough idea of how far down the list UAB currently is.
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Nice, I like seeing the lurkers post
 
Attendance is mandatory. The modules vary in the amount that they require and how much it is worth. However, you can bet that it is 70-80% and that it is worth 2-5% of your grade.

For those of you attending, just prepare yourself for the "Having someone else click for you is a violation of the Honor Code" emails that will abound. Personally, I think about 70% of the lectures aren't worth going to. Buy Robbins, BRS, RR, FA, and go to town studying like that in the time that you would be working hard on stumbleupon (aka lecture time).

For those of you that have been accepted or are on the waitlist, I'm open to questions if you have any.
 
VanBrown said:
Attendance is mandatory. The modules vary in the amount that they require and how much it is worth. However, you can bet that it is 70-80% and that it is worth 2-5% of your grade.

For those of you attending, just prepare yourself for the "Having someone else click for you is a violation of the Honor Code" emails that will abound. Personally, I think about 70% of the lectures aren't worth going to. Buy Robbins, BRS, RR, FA, and go to town studying like that in the time that you would be working hard on stumbleupon (aka lecture time).

For those of you that have been accepted or are on the waitlist, I'm open to questions if you have any.
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You said that you heard they probably won't make it through the middle third of the waitlist right? Have you heard anything else regarding that?
 
auburnO5 said:
You said that you heard they probably won't make it through the middle third of the waitlist right? Have you heard anything else regarding that?
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Ya, I think VanBrown said that he would talk to Dr. Smith if he saw him around.
 
We've been wicked busy the last few weeks so I haven't had a lot of free time to look for Dr. Smith. Your BEST bet to gauge the movement is to wait until after May 15th and see the mass withdrawals and acceptances. However far you hear the list moves you can add about 20 slots from that spot (roughly).
 
VanBrown said:
We've been wicked busy the last few weeks so I haven't had a lot of free time to look for Dr. Smith. Your BEST bet to gauge the movement is to wait until after May 15th and see the mass withdrawals and acceptances. However far you hear the list moves you can add about 20 slots from that spot (roughly).
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Sounds like a reasonable estimate. Too bad we have no idea how big the waitlist is...
 
auburnO5 said:
Sounds like a reasonable estimate. Too bad we have no idea how big the waitlist is...
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I don't feel like looking it up from past thread discussions, but i think the consensus is that it was like 102 last year, and this year it's probably closer to ~120 or so because they increased it a bit. This is PURE speculation, but I think it is a reasonable estimate.
 
thejetplane said:
I don't feel like looking it up from past thread discussions, but i think the consensus is that it was like 102 last year, and this year it's probably closer to ~120 or so because they increased it a bit. This is PURE speculation, but I think it is a reasonable estimate.
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i think there were conflicting reports on how large it was last year. some people said there were only 60. i think 120 is a good estimate for this year though if there were 118 OOS applicants admitted (which Peggy from South confirmed).
 
ddroukas said:
accepted from top tier today at 4:34 pm.
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Congrats!

I got a little bored... so I made this list.

Accepted:
DrHKitty's Friend (A: 4/8, 1st Tier)
DrHKitty's Other Friend (A: 4/9ish, 1st Tier)
Alethea (A: 4/16, 1st Tier)
Crimsonred's Friend (A: 4/9ish, 1st Tier)
doctor shmoctor (A: 4/19, 1st Tier)
ercxi (A: 4/23, 1st Tier)
crimsonred (A: 4/23, 1st Tier)
2324tigers (A: 4/23, 1st tier)
ddroukas (A: 4/30, 1st Tier)

Still waiting:
Soexcited87 (1st Tier)
Tidefan (2nd Tier)
Auburn05 (2nd Tier)
dr zaius (2nd Tier)
AUnontrad (2nd Tier)
Neuro1987 (2nd Tier)
DrHKitty (3rd Tier)
thejetplane (3rd Tier)
ERS (3rd Tier)
BamaMed19 (3rd Tier)
Tully Mars (3rd Tier)
Bamafan87 (3rd Tier)
Ditto1114 (3rd Tier)
 
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AWESOME LIST!

I think based on this, we can assume that they have gone through the majority of the 1st tier and should begin to go to the 2nd one soon, which is good news!

ps-you can remove rhino rirus from the list; he/she is a duplicate of someone else on the list
 
thejetplane said:
AWESOME LIST!

I think based on this, we can assume that they have gone through the majority of the 1st tier and should begin to go to the 2nd one soon, which is good news!

ps-you can remove rhino rirus from the list; he/she is a duplicate of someone else on the list
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Yea, I agree that they are probably almost through the 1st tier. Which is really good news for us at the bottom since it isn't even May 15th yet. 😛
 
Ditto1114 said:
Congrats!

I got a little bored... so I made this list.

Accepted:
DrHKitty's Friend (A: 4/8, 1st Tier)
DrHKitty's Other Friend (A: 4/9ish, 1st Tier)
Alethea (A: 4/16, 1st Tier)
Crimsonred's Friend (A: 4/9ish, 1st Tier)
doctor shmoctor (A: 4/19, 1st Tier)
ercxi (A: 4/23, 1st Tier)
crimsonred (A: 4/23, 1st Tier)
2324tigers (A: 4/23, 1st tier)
ddroukas (A: 4/30, 1st Tier)

Still waiting:
Soexcited87 (1st Tier)
Tidefan (2nd Tier)
Auburn05 (2nd Tier)
dr zaius (2nd Tier)
AUnontrad (2nd Tier)
Neuro1987 (2nd Tier)
DrHKitty (3rd Tier)
thejetplane (3rd Tier)
ERS (3rd Tier)
BamaMed19 (3rd Tier)
Tully Mars (3rd Tier)
Bamafan87 (3rd Tier)
Ditto1114 (3rd Tier)
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great list! I am 2nd tier still waiting. And I know someone (who i believe has not been counted yet) that is 1st tier waiting.
 
Ditto1114 said:
Congrats!

I got a little bored... so I made this list.

Accepted:
DrHKitty's Friend (A: 4/8, 1st Tier)
DrHKitty's Other Friend (A: 4/9ish, 1st Tier)
Alethea (A: 4/16, 1st Tier)
Crimsonred's Friend (A: 4/9ish, 1st Tier)
doctor shmoctor (A: 4/19, 1st Tier)
ercxi (A: 4/23, 1st Tier)
crimsonred (A: 4/23, 1st Tier)
2324tigers (A: 4/23, 1st tier)
ddroukas (A: 4/30, 1st Tier)

Still waiting:
Soexcited87 (1st Tier)
Tidefan (2nd Tier)
Auburn05 (2nd Tier)
dr zaius (2nd Tier)
AUnontrad (2nd Tier)
Neuro1987 (2nd Tier)
DrHKitty (3rd Tier)
thejetplane (3rd Tier)
ERS (3rd Tier)
BamaMed19 (3rd Tier)
Tully Mars (3rd Tier)
Bamafan87 (3rd Tier)
Ditto1114 (3rd Tier)
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well soexcited87 was my friend that was first accepted. she just doesn't get on here very much so i delivered the news for her.
 
Ditto1114 said:
Congrats!

I got a little bored... so I made this list.

Accepted:
DrHKitty's Friend (A: 4/8, 1st Tier)
DrHKitty's Other Friend (A: 4/9ish, 1st Tier)
Alethea (A: 4/16, 1st Tier)
Crimsonred's Friend (A: 4/9ish, 1st Tier)
doctor shmoctor (A: 4/19, 1st Tier)
ercxi (A: 4/23, 1st Tier)
crimsonred (A: 4/23, 1st Tier)
2324tigers (A: 4/23, 1st tier)
ddroukas (A: 4/30, 1st Tier)

Still waiting:
Soexcited87 (1st Tier)
Tidefan (2nd Tier)
Auburn05 (2nd Tier)
dr zaius (2nd Tier)
AUnontrad (2nd Tier)
Neuro1987 (2nd Tier)
DrHKitty (3rd Tier)
thejetplane (3rd Tier)
ERS (3rd Tier)
BamaMed19 (3rd Tier)
Tully Mars (3rd Tier)
Bamafan87 (3rd Tier)
Ditto1114 (3rd Tier)
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Thanks for the list. I'm also waiting on the 3rd Tier.
 
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Accepted:
DrHKitty's Friend (A: 4/8, 1st Tier)
DrHKitty's Other Friend (A: 4/9ish, 1st Tier)
Alethea (A: 4/16, 1st Tier)
Crimsonred's Friend (A: 4/9ish, 1st Tier)
doctor shmoctor (A: 4/19, 1st Tier)
ercxi (A: 4/23, 1st Tier)
crimsonred (A: 4/23, 1st Tier)
2324tigers (A: 4/23, 1st tier)
ddroukas (A: 4/30, 1st Tier)

Still waiting:
Soexcited87 (1st Tier)
Tidefan (2nd Tier)
Auburn05 (2nd Tier)
dr zaius (2nd Tier)
AUnontrad (2nd Tier)
Neuro1987 (2nd Tier)
DrHKitty (3rd Tier)
thejetplane (3rd Tier)
ERS (3rd Tier)
BamaMed19 (3rd Tier)
Tully Mars (3rd Tier)
Bamafan87 (3rd Tier)
Ditto1114 (3rd Tier)

Awesome list. I'm in the middle third.. EVERYONE ELSE ON SDN ON THE ALTERNATE LIST OR ACCEPTED OFF OF THE ALTERNATE LIST SHOULD ALSO POST SO WE GET A ROUGH IDEA OF THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE PER TIER.
 
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Great list btw...

updated:

Accepted:
soexcited87 (A: 4/8, 1st Tier)
DrHKitty's Other Friend (A: 4/9ish, 1st Tier)
Alethea (A: 4/16, 1st Tier)
Crimsonred's Friend (A: 4/9ish, 1st Tier)
doctor shmoctor (A: 4/19, 1st Tier)
ercxi (A: 4/23, 1st Tier)
crimsonred (A: 4/23, 1st Tier)
2324tigers (A: 4/23, 1st tier)
ddroukas (A: 4/30, 1st Tier)


Still waiting:

Upper Third
w0nder

Middle Third
Tidefan
fireproof
obrienwspt
auburnO5
dr zaius
AUnontrad
Neuro1987
georgd1

Lower Third
DrHKitty
thejetplane
ERS
BamaMed19
Tully Mars
Bamafan87
Ditto1114
piper19
bamapremeds
BrownSpice360


Is there anyone else on here that has yet to be accepted from the top tier?
 
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I haven't been accepted off of the top tier yet :/ I will let you know when I am!
 
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That seems like a pretty good list we have going. I really like the fact that the upper third list is so short 👍

Edit: and yes I realize that this is just a small sample of us SDN'ers, but I still think it's a good sign
 
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auburnO5 said:
That seems like a pretty good list we have going. I really like the fact that the upper third list is so short 👍

Edit: and yes I realize that this is just a small sample of us SDN'ers, but I still think it's a good sign
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I'm also on third tier so I guess u missed me. I like that fact too. I really hope we hear a middle tier acceptance soon.
 
i was accepted today at 9:07 am. I will attend in the fall. Good luck to everyone else!!
 
Ball00nHands said:
I've been lurking for a little while too now, and I'm also on the 2nd tier.
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Accepted:
soexcited87 (A: 4/8, 1st Tier)
DrHKitty's Other Friend (A: 4/9ish, 1st Tier)
Alethea (A: 4/16, 1st Tier)
Crimsonred's Friend (A: 4/9ish, 1st Tier)
doctor shmoctor (A: 4/19, 1st Tier)
ercxi (A: 4/23, 1st Tier)
crimsonred (A: 4/23, 1st Tier)
2324tigers (A: 4/23, 1st tier)
ddroukas (A: 4/30, 1st Tier)
wOnder (A: 5/3, 1st Tier)


Still waiting:

Middle Third
Tidefan
fireproof
obrienwspt
auburnO5
dr zaius
AUnontrad
Neuro1987
georgd1
Ball00nHands

Lower Third
DrHKitty
thejetplane
ERS
BamaMed19
Tully Mars
Bamafan87
Ditto1114
piper19
bamapremeds
BrownSpice360


Is there anyone else on here that has yet to be accepted from the top tier or are on one of the other tiers?
 
ERS said:
Accepted:
soexcited87 (A: 4/8, 1st Tier)
DrHKitty's Other Friend (A: 4/9ish, 1st Tier)
Alethea (A: 4/16, 1st Tier)
Crimsonred's Friend (A: 4/9ish, 1st Tier)
doctor shmoctor (A: 4/19, 1st Tier)
ercxi (A: 4/23, 1st Tier)
crimsonred (A: 4/23, 1st Tier)
2324tigers (A: 4/23, 1st tier)
ddroukas (A: 4/30, 1st Tier)
wOnder (A: 5/3, 1st Tier)


Still waiting:

Middle Third
Tidefan
fireproof
obrienwspt
auburnO5
dr zaius
AUnontrad
Neuro1987
georgd1
Ball00nHands

Lower Third
DrHKitty
thejetplane
ERS
BamaMed19
Tully Mars
Bamafan87
Ditto1114
piper19
bamapremeds
BrownSpice360


Is there anyone else on here that has yet to be accepted from the top tier or are on one of the other tiers?
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If this is updated, then I am not counted yet. I am 2nd tier. And I have a friend who was accepted today from 1st tier. Yay!
 
20PAIGE10 said:
If this is updated, then I am not counted yet. I am 2nd tier. And I have a friend who was accepted today from 1st tier. Yay!
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Great - here's the revised list
Accepted:
soexcited87 (A: 4/8, 1st Tier)
DrHKitty's Other Friend (A: 4/9ish, 1st Tier)
Alethea (A: 4/16, 1st Tier)
Crimsonred's Friend (A: 4/9ish, 1st Tier)
doctor shmoctor (A: 4/19, 1st Tier)
ercxi (A: 4/23, 1st Tier)
crimsonred (A: 4/23, 1st Tier)
2324tigers (A: 4/23, 1st tier)
ddroukas (A: 4/30, 1st Tier)
wOnder (A: 5/3, 1st Tier)
20paige10's friend (A: 5/3, 1st Tier)


Still waiting:

Middle Third
Tidefan
fireproof
obrienwspt
auburnO5
dr zaius
AUnontrad
Neuro1987
georgd1
Ball00nHands
20Paige10

Lower Third
DrHKitty
thejetplane
ERS
BamaMed19
Tully Mars
Bamafan87
Ditto1114
piper19
bamapremeds
BrownSpice360

Surely they are getting close to that 2nd tier list!!
 
Wouldn't it be awesome if they started pulling from the middle tier before the 15th?!! 😀
 
BrownSpice630 said:
I wonder why someone from admissions said they wouldn't get thru the entire middle tier if the waitlist is moving so fast.
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That was just one person that VanBrown said he spoke to. Maybe the adcom thought that more OOS applicants would want to go to UAB. I can't imagine paying 3X tuition to go out of state.
 
The first person to get in off the middle third from last year's thread got in on May 15th, and they pretty much ran through the 2nd tier in about a week and a half. Let's hope for the same this year 👍
 
auburnO5 said:
That was just one person that VanBrown said he spoke to. Maybe the adcom thought that more OOS applicants would want to go to UAB. I can't imagine paying 3X tuition to go out of state.
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If you do the math based upon the stats they publish on their admissions web site - there could be 90+ people taken from the wait list - historically only around 28% of OOS accept and 20% of IS don't accept plus there is attrition off the wait list itself - I am hopeful there is a real possibility that the bottom 1/3 could still be reached.

I Agree with Auburn05 - can't imagine paying 3X tuition to go out of state and if I was going to do that - I would want to go to a bigger name school than UAB - particularly now with healthcare reform I am hopeful that you OOS will think three times before paying that big tuition bill!!
 
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auburnO5 said:
The first person to get in off the middle third from last year's thread got in on May 15th, and they pretty much ran through the 2nd tier in about a week and a half. Let's hope for the same this year 👍
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Did you look at when they started accepting ppl from the 3rd tier and how far down they got? Ya, i'd imagine they'd fly through the 2nd tier when alot of ppl drop on May 15.
 
BrownSpice630 said:
Did you look at when they started accepting ppl from the 3rd tier and how far down they got? Ya, i'd imagine they'd fly through the 2nd tier when alot of ppl drop on May 15.
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I think the first person on here that got in off the lower third was sometime at the beginning of June. Not sure how far down the list they got, but I can tell you they didn't get down far enough.
 
auburnO5 said:
I think the first person on here that got in off the lower third was sometime at the beginning of June. Not sure how far down the list they got, but I can tell you they didn't get down far enough.
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Just to remind everyone waiting:

Last year there were 102 people on the wait-list--that's 34 people per tier. They accepted 75 and another 11 were accepted elsewhere. In other words, 86 out of 102 got in somewhere.

They got a little over halfway through the third tier--only 16 people did not get in to SOME medical school. The first person in off of the third tier was end of May. The last person in off of the third tier was the second day of orientation.

Some advice:

Go ahead and start re-applying and get everything in--it will help you if you don't get accepted. This is especially true for third tier "wait-listees."
 
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